User talk:Arkalor

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page vs category

Hey, I have noticed that a large number of pages are being moved from wiki pages to categories. Is there a reason for this? While categories are certainly useful since they are automagically maintained, I often found our manually maintained pages more useful.

For example, this old page http://ac.wikkii.net/w/index.php?title=Axes&oldid=369603 is much more useful to me, because of the sortable table, than http://ac.wikkii.net/wiki/Category:Heavy_Weapons, which just contains an alphabetical list.

Even if, for example, I am specifically looking for base 400 wield heavy weapons, I'd much rather have a sortable table than just the list of links at http://ac.wikkii.net/wiki/Category:Heavy_Weapons:_Wield_400 because a table could contain damage, damage type, special properties, etc.

I'm not saying that categories need to go away - they are certainly useful, but the information they present is rather limited.

--An Adventurer 03:41, 2 March 2014 (EST)

Re: Tooltips

Even if the public servers eventually close, an accurate wiki will be vital for the fan-run servers that Sev had talked about in his post. --An Adventurer 07:54, 2 March 2014 (EST)

Quest Guide Item Section

Hey Ark, I have another question for you.

I noticed that recently updated quest guides no longer have an item section, listing all items related to the quest (rumors, keys, rewards, etc). Is there a reason for the removal of this?

I've found this section to be useful, especially if I am going to a quest guide specifically to find a quick link to an item. --An Adventurer 05:43, 28 March 2014 (EST)

I think most of the changes made to the quest guides have been good. The shortened and smaller quest summary is a good change.

I guess I just like the visual aspect of icons - its easier for me to recognize, I guess. And I do think that a list of all related items would be useful. For example, there are a large number of intermediary items in the Composite Weapons Quest, and I don't think the guide would be easily rewritten to use a lot of text and tiny icons. Having a complete list of all items related to that quest on that quest's page seems like a useful thing to me. Likewise,

Likewise, I also liked having the dialog from the quest appear in the colors it does in game. I actually recently added to the css so we could use classes instead of inline styling, you can see my examples here: User:An_Adventurer/Sandbox_2. IMO, visually being able to quickly identify the type of chat message is useful.

As for wikia, no, I don't think I'd want to move back there, but it could be better maintained with more recent backups added so it is available as another resource. We should probably get an email going between the wiki admins to discuss this more. --An Adventurer 04:34, 29 March 2014 (EST)

Images

I haven't got a confirmation from wikia yet, but our file upload log is filled with uploads from maintenance script, and the spring 2014 patch has most of its images available now. So it looks like we've got wikkii.net as restored as it'll get. --An Adventurer (talk) 14:28, November 18, 2014 (UTC)

It doesn't look like I can promote users to bots. We'll need to contact Wikia about it, it shouldn't be a big deal. --An Adventurer (talk) 03:03, November 19, 2014 (UTC)

RE: Bureaucrat status

Abracadabra! You are now a bureaucrat :) --An Adventurer (talk) 14:06, November 21, 2014 (UTC)

Re: Tooltip code

I figured it was something like that. I just commented out the function. If it is not needed feel free to remove it completely. --An Adventurer (talk) 18:31, March 13, 2015 (UTC)

re: AC Manual

Thanks! I was meaning to dig out my ACDM CD and grab the PDF off of that, but this will work too. --An Adventurer (talk) 19:03, March 19, 2015 (UTC)

Re: Web Archive

Thanks for the info! Now I don't have to try to find some poor IT person at turbine to bug :P--An Adventurer (talk) 17:40, April 7, 2015 (UTC)

live events

I really like the work you are doing on all the old story arc live events. Keep it up! --An Adventurer (talk) 13:35, June 12, 2015 (UTC)

Re: Live Events:

Personally, I think that any live event that related to the overall story should be listed on the Live Event page under the story arc that they are a part of, regardless of how major or minor an event it was. My reason for saying this is someone may be interested in that story arc, and want to know all they can about it, so it makes sense to have all the live events for it together.

Live events that were unrelated to any story arc should be listed on the Live Events Year page (e.g. 2009 Live Events). This would be events like a +Turbine logging in and spawning monsters for fun, various non-serious live events (xmas, april fools, easter, Mr. P, etc), or the Jolt ran events that were sometimes lore related but not actually part of the current story arc.

As for triggered events, the line between quest and live event is a little fuzzy. I'm not entirely sure how to handle these, but my gut reaction is to have the triggered event listed as a live event, with whatever details are pertinent to the first time it became available listed there, and then have the guide/write up listed on a quest page. An example of this would be the The Soul Crystal of the Dark Isle (Live Event) and Raising Grael's Island (Quest Guide).

As for various NPCs, I've always felt it best to have every instance of an NPC listed. All of these various listings would be linked together via the character's page (e.g. Hoshino Kei), under the Appearances in game section. The reason this is that we want to be able to talk about and link to specific instances of a character. Aerfalle is a good example of this, where there have been several unique versions of her as both a Creature and an NPC.

Now, when it comes to the Unwed and Wed Hoshino Kei entries, maybe those should be merged together into Hoshino Kei (Wedding) since they are both from the same event, and are both identical except in title. I can't think of a need to link to one of those pages and not the other.

--An Adventurer (talk) 19:47, July 3, 2015 (UTC)